Jan Valtin
Pen name of Richard Julius Hermann Krebs, a German-born writer and former communist operative best known for the 1941 bestseller Out of the Night, a memoir detailing his experiences with the Comintern and the Gestapo; he later lived and wrote in the United States.
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1. Out Of The Night
A former communist agent recounts his years running clandestine operations for the Comintern across Europe, the brutal betrayals and arrests that ensnare him, torture and imprisonment under the Nazis, and the chilling duplicity of Soviet handlers, leading to his disillusionment with revolutionary ideology and a perilous escape toward freedom in the West.
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